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FDA OKs InSightec ExAblate clinical trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin a phase I clinical trial to evaluate its ExAblate Neuro system for treating patients with tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease.

August 19, 2012

China could become 20% of world ultrasound market

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Substantial investment in healthcare could increase China's share of the global ultrasound market to 20% by 2016, according to a new study from market research firm InMedica.

August 19, 2012

Acertara upgrades US testing device

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound acoustic measurement and testing firm Acertara Acoustic Laboratories has upgraded its Artis time-delay spectrometry (TDS) ultrasonic test device to be able to quantitatively assess the receive sensitivity of ultrasound transducers used in photoacoustic imaging.

August 16, 2012

Adding ultrasound boosts radiotherapy for prostate cancer

By Tami Freeman

Combining pulsed nonthermal focused ultrasound with radiotherapy could increase the efficacy of prostate cancer treatment, according to a presentation at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting held in Charlotte, NC, earlier this month.

August 16, 2012

Group combines US with photoacoustics

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Scientists from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a photoacoustic endoscopy method that combines a photoacoustic imaging device with an ultrasound endoscope.

August 13, 2012

FDA approves Philips, Celsion HIFU study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Royal Philips Electronics and Celsion announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the initiation of a clinical study supporting a joint development program in MR-guided high-intensity-focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU) technology.

August 6, 2012